Thursday, December 19, 2013

As some of you may have noticed there has been some construction on Love Library this past week. The construction is replacing the roof over Love North and the Link. Love Library will remain open during holiday and regular hours throughout this re-roofing project. Completion date is scheduled for March 2014.

The UNL Libraries announced December 16, 2013 that Ted E.
Naylor was appointed Interim Engineering Librarian and started on December 1,
2013.In his role he will be liaison to
the College of Engineering and all of its units from Architectural Engineering
to Mechanical Engineering. Naylor has worked for the UNL Libraries since
January 2006 in the position of Special Projects Librarian and was responsible
for projects assigned to him by the Dean of Libraries, including reviewing,
negotiating, and completing vendor license agreements, the assessment of the
Engineering Library, and evaluating policies for digitization projects.

Before joining UNL, Naylor worked as the Interlibrary Loan
Librarian at both the Wichita State University in Kansas from 1993-2005, and the
Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas from 1989-1992. Naylor received his
Master’s degree in Library Science from the University of Oklahoma and his
Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Oklahoma State University.

Naylor says his main focus will be working with Engineering
faculty and students to help evaluate the Engineering Library’s print
collection to prioritize high-use materials to stay on site and move low-use
materials to the LDRF or satellite storage.

“I will also be working with faculty to determine what they
need from an Engineering Librarian in terms of reference, instruction, and
assistance with research,” explains Naylor.

Naylor’s office will be in the Engineering Library, W204R
Nebraska Hall, and he can be reached at 402-472-3412 or tnaylor2@unl.edu.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

By popular request, Love Library will extend its regular hours during the Spring semester from Midnight to 1:00 am. The extension will take effect starting on January 13, 2014, the first day of spring semester and will be extended on Sunday through Thursday in the regular schedule.

The best part about the internet, is that it’s
searchable.Looking for a good cookie
recipe?Search “Delicious cookie
recipes” in google and you come up with a million answers.Looking for how to make some great Christmas
Ornaments?Search “How to make great
Christmas ornaments.”Life is so much
easier when things are searchable.

This is why the UNL Libraries have a very important project
going on where many volunteers are needed to help.The libraries are trying to make the UNL
yearbooks searchable.In order to do
this people need to go through and write out what every page of every yearbook
says word for word.The project is
halfway done, but in order to finish it more volunteers are needed!So go to http://transcribe.unl.edu/
and starting transcribing so that this project can get done so alums, students,
faculty and many more can search the yearbooks for what they’re looking for.

Monday, December 2, 2013

The UNL Libraries invites you to check out all of the social
media we have to offer.Through our
social media we give out reminders, update what events are going on in the
library and fun facts.So check out the
different sites we use at: http://storify.com/UNLLibraries/unl-libraries-media